Showing posts with label Flower fairies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Flower fairies. Show all posts

Mar 13, 2015

Woodland Faeries






After a long break I've finally started to create again 
and it feels just wonderful.

For these lovely woodland faeries
I have used wool balls for their heads instead of wooden beads. 
It is so much easier to shape their hair and hats this way. 
I feel like Vidal Sassoon when I'm modeling their hair with my felting needle :)


Jun 21, 2013

DIY Flower Fairy Patio Set



Recently I discovered a delicious organic alcohol free apple cider and it even has a champagne cork! So finally I could make a lovely fairy chair like the ones I had seen on Pinterest. After that I became inspired and designed a matching patio table with a flower parasol.


Here is my simplified version of the chair, 
all you need is a wire cage from a champagne or cider bottle and a wire cutter;

1 - Cut the loop from the lower wire of the cage.
2 - Remove the wire completely from the cage leaving it in one piece.
3 - Shape a chair back by bending the wire.
4 - Twist the chair back onto the legs and trim excessive wire.
5 - Bow the end of the legs slightly.

Optional; you can remove the chair seat before you attach the chair back and replace it later.


For the patio table you will need:

- a wire cage 
- sharp scissors/knife
- wire cutters
- plastic or glass cap to use as a tiny vase
- a screw cap of 4 to 5 cm
- hot glue gun
- a flower with a long stem and water

 1- Cut the loop from the lower wire of the cage and remove the wire completely from the cage leaving it in one piece.
2 - Remove the seat from the wire cage. 
Prick a hole in the screw cap using scissors.
3 - Glue the wire cage to the bottom of the screw cap with a hot glue gun.
Glue the plastic cap in the center of the wire cage onto the screw cap, 
with the open side below the hole.
4 - Fill the plastic cap with water trough the hole in the screw cap.
Bow the end of the legs slightly and place a flower in the patio table vase.


 This makes such a lovely summer table decoration!
I hope you enjoy it and I wish you a lovely weekend.

Shared on;
The Magic Onions - Friday's Nature Table
Natural Suburbia - Creative Friday
Made by Joey - Sharing Creative Ideas
Frontier Dreams - Keep Calm Craft On
Like Mama Like Daughter - Eco-Kids Tuesday

Jun 14, 2013

Fairy Houses - DIY Milk Carton Flower Fairy Home


Yesterday I suddenly had inspiration to create a new kind of fairy house that could be used as a flower pot too. I'm very pleased with the result especially since I can finally recycle our milk cartons into fairy houses.



 Like always this is very easy to create!

1 - You need a used, well rinsed milk carton (the ones in Holland have a spout that can be used to water the plants).
2 - Prick a hole in the side of the carton with scissors and cut out 2 square windows. You can use the flaps to create shutters, but this time I just removed them.
3 - Fill the bottom with some soil and fill the carton with succulents till just above the square windows.
Optional; cut the support bar between the windows to easily fill the carton with plants. Later you can restore it when you cover the carton with barch.
4 - Cover the entire sides of the carton with barch and moss and create a barch roof using a hot glue gun. And finally decorate the house with pressed flowers, moss, snail shells and feathers.


These homes will attract the flower fairies of the plants that are growing inside.
Good luck and I wish you a magical weekend!
Shared on;
The Magic Onions - Friday's Nature Table
Natural Suburbia - Creative Friday
Made by Joey - Sharing Creative Ideas
Frontier Dreams - Keep Calm Craft On
Like Mama Like Daughter - Eco-Kids Tuesday

May 23, 2013

Fairy Houses - Moss Fairy House


This moss fairy house is a cosy and safe home 
to all the tiny magical creatures of the moss lands.


It is simply made of a toiletpaper roll base covered with bark and moss. 
You can find the photo-tutorial for the base here.
Once your fairy house is ready, glue it on a slice of birch
to keep the toiletpaper roll dry when you water the moss.


 By adding and changing small decorations like e.g. planters from snail shells
birch branch step stones and tiny ladders,
you can make the moss house an even more enjoyable place to be!
(and to look at from your couch of course! :)

Shared on;
Natural Suburbia - Creative Friday
Magic Onions - Friday's Nature Table
Made by Joey - Sharing Creative Ideas
Frontier Dreams - Keep Calm and Craft on
Like Mama Like Daughter - Eco-Kids Tuesday

Apr 8, 2013

Flower Fairies - Pussy Willow Fairy


Today I made this small flower fairy scene from a pussy willow branch. For the fairy I used my flower fairy pattern and I gave her a headdress made of pussy willows. The pussy willows are attached with sticky beeswax so I can easily replace them by other flowers. The base is made of an Ourico Pod (a coconut or small flower pot would work great too) filled with floral foam, and a dried birch bark surrounded by moss and spanish moss.


Every week I can simply change the scene by adding new flowers and creating a new flower fairy by changing her headdress. So simple and she looks just lovely on our dinnertable!

Mar 29, 2013

Flower and Nest Fairies - Free PDF-pattern download


Here are some cuties I wanted to share with you. The flower and the nest fairies. These tiny fairies are only 5 cm tall and are the guardians of the flowers and bird nests.

Required Materials;

- 2 pipe cleaners (2 x 3 cm)
- 1 wooden bead 9 mm
- 2 wooden beads 3 mm
- wool felt scraps white
- beeswax scrap
- tuft wool roving in the color of the felt
- scissors
- (embroidery) thread
- needle
- eco glue
- feathers and moss
- a copy of the free pdf-pattern (click here to download)


The basis for both the fairies is the same. Use the pattern to cut out 1 jacket. Cut 2 pieces of pipe cleaners of 3 cm each and place them crosswise + on the table. Wrap the vertical pipe cleaner one time around te horizontal pipe cleaner. The baseframe is now ready.

Now sew the jacket and attach the head and arms. For more detailed instructions click here. Finally take a small tuft of woolroving and place it horizontal in the jacket. Fold the pipecleaner around the wool and fold the ends of the wool down together. Wet your fingers a bit and make a tip.

You can decorate the fairy with feathers (for wings and head decoration), flowers and moss. I use beeswax to secure the decorations so I can replace them easily once they are withered.

The nest fairies are flying around small quail eggs and the flower fairy is flying around a basket with white Muscari flowers (her jacket can easily be pushed over a stalk).


I hope you will enjoy these tiny fairies as much as I do. They make great gifts and are lovely in all kinds of flower and table decorations. Enjoy!


                   

                            



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